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ture on constitutional grounds and struck down.” Last week, Watson had sent a letter to Naqvi requesting this legislation, saying the city did not have the jurisdiction to take action on its own. “We’ve seen harassment over the years on Bank Street at the clinic, but it was starting, in Alex many ways, to get worse,” WatAbdelwahab son said Monday. Metro | Ottawa In the meantime, Watson Ontario’s Attorney General Yasir advised anyone harassed or asNaqvi announced new legisla- saulted trying to access abortion tion Monday that will enact a care to call police. “I’ve spoken to the chief (of “bubble zone” around abortion providers in the province. police) on this and he’s assured Naqvi, the MPP for Ottawa me that if the harassment conCentre, which includes the Ot- tinues, the individuals are to call tawa Morgentaler Clinic, said he 9-1-1 and police will get there will be tabling the “safe access as quickly as possible,” he said. zones” legislation in the fall. Catherine Macnab, execuHe made the tive director of announcement Planned Parentin Ottawa alonghood Ottawa, was at the anside Mayor Jim We’ve seen nouncement Wa t s o n a n d Coun. Cather- harassment over the and called it ine McKenney. years on Bank Street. exciting. “It is my “We were surMayor Jim Watson steadfast beprised by how lief that every swift the reacwoman in Ontario has the right tion was,” she said, referring to make decisions about her to the letter sent by the mayor own health care,” Naqvi said, on May 23. “and she deserves to do so freely, Macnab said she hopes the without fear.” new legislation is crafted in a He said he will meet with way that it will also apply to fuseveral groups over the sum- ture centres, saying she knows mer and will review existing the legislation in British Columlegislation in British Columbia, bia includes detailed plans for Quebec and Newfoundland and each of the covered sites. Labrador. “If the legislation is very The legislation must strike specific, then if a new site opens a balance between protecting that’s providing abortion servia women’s right to choose and ces, it will have to go through the right to free speech, he said, a really complicated process,” so it’s “not challenged in the fu- she said.
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